Magdalena Johanna Greyling
E182957
Magdalena Johanna Greyling was the wife of Voortrekker leader Piet Retief, a prominent figure in early 19th-century South African history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Magdalena Johanna Greyling canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1604892 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Magdalena Johanna Greyling Context triple: [Piet Retief, spouse, Magdalena Johanna Greyling]
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A.
Wilhelmina Jacoba Neethling
Wilhelmina Jacoba Neethling was the wife of South African Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog and a prominent figure in early 20th-century South African political and social life.
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B.
Johanna Hendrika Schaay
Johanna Hendrika Schaay was the wife of Dutch theologian, journalist, and statesman Abraham Kuyper, accompanying him through his influential religious and political career in the Netherlands.
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C.
Cornelia Carbentus-van der Gaag
Cornelia Carbentus-van der Gaag was a Dutch woman known primarily as the mother of painter Anna Cornelia Carbentus and a member of the Carbentus–van der Gaag family.
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D.
Geytie Maria du Plessis
Geytie Maria du Plessis was the wife of Paul Kruger, the influential 19th-century president of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
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E.
Ella van Heemstra
Ella van Heemstra was a Dutch baroness and socialite best known as the mother of iconic actress Audrey Hepburn.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Magdalena Johanna Greyling Target entity description: Magdalena Johanna Greyling was the wife of Voortrekker leader Piet Retief, a prominent figure in early 19th-century South African history.
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A.
Wilhelmina Jacoba Neethling
Wilhelmina Jacoba Neethling was the wife of South African Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog and a prominent figure in early 20th-century South African political and social life.
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B.
Johanna Hendrika Schaay
Johanna Hendrika Schaay was the wife of Dutch theologian, journalist, and statesman Abraham Kuyper, accompanying him through his influential religious and political career in the Netherlands.
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C.
Cornelia Carbentus-van der Gaag
Cornelia Carbentus-van der Gaag was a Dutch woman known primarily as the mother of painter Anna Cornelia Carbentus and a member of the Carbentus–van der Gaag family.
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D.
Geytie Maria du Plessis
Geytie Maria du Plessis was the wife of Paul Kruger, the influential 19th-century president of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
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E.
Ella van Heemstra
Ella van Heemstra was a Dutch baroness and socialite best known as the mother of iconic actress Audrey Hepburn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Great Trek
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Voortrekkers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | South Africa ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Voortrekker ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early 19th-century South African frontier society ⓘ |
| language | Afrikaans ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Magdalena Johanna Greyling ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Voortrekker leader Piet Retief ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Cape Colony
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South African interior ⓘ |
| region | Southern Africa ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
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linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| spouse | Piet Retief ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | leadership during the Great Trek ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Voortrekker leader ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Magdalena Johanna Greyling Description of subject: Magdalena Johanna Greyling was the wife of Voortrekker leader Piet Retief, a prominent figure in early 19th-century South African history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.